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SISSETON-WAHPETON SIOUX TRIBE v. U.S.

No. CV-87-095-GF.

686 F.Supp. 831 (1988)

SISSETON-WAHPETON SIOUX TRIBE OF the LAKE TRAVERSE INDIAN RESERVATION, NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTH DAKOTA, Devils Lake Sioux Tribe of the Devils Lake Sioux Indian Reservation, North Dakota, and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Council of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, and James A. Baker, Secretary of the Treasury, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Montana, Great Falls Division.

May 3, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertram E. Hirsch, Floral Park, N.Y., Sandra K. Watts, Great Falls, Mont., for plaintiffs.

George F. Darragh, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Great Falls, Mont., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HATFIELD, District Judge.

The present action challenges the validity of an act of Congress implemented to distribute those sums of money appropriated by Congress to satisfy a final judgment entered by the Indian Claims Commission pursuant to the authority vested in that entity by the Indian Claims Commission Act, 60 Stat. 1049, 25 U.S.C. §§ 70, et seq. At issue is the Act of October 25, 1972 (25 U.S.C. §§ 1300d...

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